If you have a kid and you have a video ipod, do yourself a favor and subscribe in iTunes to the Shorty McShort’s Shorts video podcast. Free cartoons for your ipod. We used it today to keep my daughter nice and quiet while we shopping. You’re welcome.
[tags]geek, ipod, itunes, animation, cartoon, cartoons, fatherhood, dad[/tags]
So, with our new arrangement of furniture and the incoming big-screen plasma/LCD, I decided I need another Xbox running XBMC – one will stay upstairs hardwired to the network, the other will be connected to the LCD/plasma and be hooked into the network wirelessly. My first one I used a modchip, but the art of softmodding has come a long way so I thought I’d try it. Since I already had a working Xbox, I went looking for a “broken” Xbox whose DVD drive didn’t work. I could just swap my working one in, do the softmod, and then just use it as a networked media center.
I posted on Craigslist looking for a “broken” but bootable XBox and found one for $25 which included all cables, 2 wired controllers, and one wireless controller. What a deal – though I did have to drive 18 miles both ways to pick it up. The softmod requires an original version of 007, MechAssault, or Splinter Cell so I asked a coworker (whom I know owns an Xbox) if he happened to have one of those games and he has two of them! I borrowed those and off I went.
I downloaded “Softmod Installer Deluxe” which contained the softmod installer and the hacked savegames. You’ll also need the Action Replay software for Xbox so that you can get the savegames on your Xbox. Along with that, you need a USB adapter that goes in your Xbox controller port. Luckily, my modchip came with one so I didn’t have to hack a controller and make one.
I don’t know what the heck this is but half the time when I type the word “for” on my Windows XP computer it beeps at me. Does anyone have ANY idea what could be causing this? Anyone? Please? It’s driving me crazy!
[tags]geek, windows, xp, windows xp, beep, beeps, help[/tags]
Since I started my new job, I now have a 35-40 minute commute to work so I started listening to audiobooks again. I found a free audiobook called Singularity by Bill DeSmedt at podiobooks.com. From the site:
What if the cataclysmic Tunguska explosion of 1908 was caused, not by a meteor or a comet, but by a microscopic black hole?
What if that fantastic object – smaller than an atom, older than the stars, heavier than a mountain – is still down there, orbiting deep inside the earth, slowly consuming the planet?
What if only a rookie government agent and an uncannily-insightful consultant stand between a renegade Russian billionaire and his plans to use the black hole to change history – or end it?
What if it’s all true?
I thoroughly enjoyed Singularity – in fact, there were times I didn’t want to leave the car because I was so involved in the story. The author does a great job narrating and really keeps you involved. It does gets a bit technical at times with things like quantum theory, the time-space continuum, etc. but it was action-packed and quite entertaining.
If you’re looking for an action-thriller with a scientific bent to it, you can’t go wrong with Singularity.
I freakin love Hell’s Kitchen. I guess it’s my restaurant experience with Golden Corral and Outback Steakhouse that makes that show unbelievably entertaining. I worked on both side – out front as a waiter, bartender, and FOH manager and I did all positions in the back (meatcutter, line, dish, grill, saute, salad, fry, etc. etc.). Good times, but I don’t miss it a bit.
[tags]tv, television, hells kitchen, fox, restaurant, outback steakhouse[/tags]